​Aro Valley Community Book ExchangeThe Community Centre is starting a book exchange. Bring a book that you have read and enjoyed to the community centre and exchange it for another one or just take a book and pass it on. Lets spread the reading love.To kick start this project we need some books to start us off. Can you help? Please contact Krissy on community@arovalley.org.nz or drop your old books to the community centre.

WHAT IS IT?The Aro cargo bike is a community owned bike on a membership system, situated in Aro Valley and funded by WCC Communities on Bikes and supported by Bicycle Junction.FIND OUT MORE!

Aro Valley and Newtown Cultural & Community Centre Community Fridge Project Are you passionate about zero-waste and elevating food poverty? Do you want to make a difference and implement a ground breaking new sustainable project in Wellington? Do you have the skills to co-ordinate and implement a community vision?

The Aro Valley Community Centre and The Newtown Community & Cultural Centre have joined forces and are both establishing community fridges in our respective neighbourhoods with generous support from Wellington City Council’s Waste Minimisation fund.

Wellington City Council is starting a review of the Outer Green Belt Management Plan. The Outer Green Belt is a network of public parks and open spaces extending from Tawa in the north all the way south to the Brooklyn turbine and the coast below. It is an enormous area and the current Management Plan outlines the key values of the reserves and guides how the Council will manage and maintain the various spaces and places.

Please see the attached letter explaining the project and with a map of the reserves.

At this stage we are hoping to understand from the public perspective what key issues or opportunities there might be with the management, maintenance and potential development of the Outer Green Belt reserves network now and in the next 10 years. The attached letter will be sent to all landowners in the Outer Green Belt concept area and via email to all the community group stakeholders (eg residents associations, recreation groups, environmental groups etc).

We would love to hear what you and/or the group you are part of think about the Outer Green Belt.

There is a short online survey where you can quickly and easily give us your thoughts. Please feel free to email the link around to your group or others you think might be interested.

The attached letter lists three public workshops where you can drop in and tell us what you think.

Once we have received all of your feedback, finished the review and prepared a draft of the revised Management Plan, we will let you know and it will be put out for public consultation for the Council to consider next year.